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—I am thinking of the test tomorrow. I am afraid I cannot pass this time.
—______! I am sure you will make it.

If you get paid by ____ day, you must fill out the daily rate and total hours at _____ bottom of the sheel.

—Do you think the weather will be all right this summer?
—No, ____ we are lucky. The newspaper says it’ll be very hot anyway.

Pratt failed many times but he finally ____ to find a successful way to solve the problem.

Bungee is an adventurous sport, popular with young guys, _____ courage matters more than strength.

Good news! The price of all those second-hand goods is ______ before.

I would appreciate ______ very much if you could give me some suggestions.

Though the novel had a happy ending, the readers were left ____.

A good teacher must be able to hold his students’ attention ____ he reaches the end of the class.

"The interest ____ be divided into five parts, according to the agreement made by both sides." declared the judge.

—I thought he hated TV.
—You are right, ______. he still watches the program.

—When did you come back?
—Half an hour ago. You ____ to music.

______, his mother has to take care of him at home.

The new movie ____ to be one of the biggest money-makers of all time.

If Joe knew anything about car mechanics, I’m sure he would help us fix the car, but he ______ even less than we do.

The purpose of a letter of application(求职信) is to help you to "sell" yourself. It should state   36   the job you want, and should tell what your abilities are and what you have   37  . It should be simple, human, personal and brief without   38   out any necessary facts.
In writing a letter of application, keep in   39   that the things a possible employer is most   40   to want to know about are your qualifications(条件), your achievements and your aims. The opening paragraph is perhaps the most important part.   41   the first few sentences fail to   42   the reader’s attention, the rest of the letter may not be   43   at all. Try to key your opening remarks to the needs or interests of the employer not   44   your own need or desires. For example, instead of beginning with “I saw your   45  in today’s newspaper,” you might say “I have made a careful   46   of your advertising during the past six months” or “I have made a survey in my neighborhood to find out how many housewives   47   your product and why they like it.”
Try to   48   generalities(概述). Be clear about the kind of job for which you are now   49  . College graduates looking for their first positions often ask “What can I  50 in a letter? Employers want experience—which, naturally, no   51  has.” The answer is that everything you have ever done is   52  .
It is important to write a good strong closing for your letter.   53  a specific request for an interview or give the possible employer something definite to do or expect. An excellent   54   is to enclose(内附) a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your letter. That makes it   55   for a possible employer to get in touch with you.

A．easily B．carefully C．obviously D．clearly

A．done B．found C．known D．heard

A．sending B．leaving C．taking D．picking

A．brain B．sight C．mind D．order

A．probable B．possible C．able D．likely

A．While B．Although C．If D．As

A．win B．pay C．show D．fix

A．kept B．read C．written D．continued

A．from B．for C．into D．to

A．article B．report C．advertisement D．introduction

A．watch B．study C．search D．discussion

A．use B．make C．sell D．change

A．gain B．remember C．protect D．avoid

A．applying B．losing C．preparing D．fitting

A．offer B．supply C．provide D．mean

A．worker B．manager C．owner D．beginner

A．success B．experience C．practice D．development

A．State B．Ask C．Make D．Get

A．result B．idea C．promise D．decision

A．easier B．happier C．cheaper D．safer

London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi poll(调查).
The survey by travel website hotels.com found London taxis, despite being the most expensive, beat rivals across the globe to head the list for the third consecutive years, scoring a total of 59 percent in votes on several categories by travellers.
London taxi drivers were voted both friendliest and most knowledgeable. Drivers in the English capital must pass a rigorous examination called The Knowledge to earn their taxi licence.
New York’s yellow taxis came second in the list, scoring 27 percent which was up 10 percentage points from last year even though Manhattan’s cab drivers tied with Parisian taxi drivers as the rudest.
Travellers said New York had the most available taxis.
Cabbies in Rome were voted the worst drivers in the world with almost one in 10 travellers thinking the Italian capital had the world’s worst taxi drivers when it came to the quality of driving.
“Travelling by taxi is one of the first experiences that many travellers have upon arrival in a new city. In fact, the research found that cabs are by far the most popular method of travelling from the airport to their hotel,” a spokesman for hotels.com said in a statement.
The global poll scored city based taxis for their levels of cleanliness, value, quality of driving, knowledge of the area, friendliness, safety and availability.
Rounding out the top five were Tokyo with a total score of 26 percent, Berlin with 17 percent, and Bangkok famed for its tuk-tuks scoring 14 percent.
Madrid’s taxis were ranked sixth in the poll, followed by Copenhagen and Dublin with 11 percent and Frankfurt and Paris with 10 percent.
Taxis in Sydney fell short of the top 10, scoring badly in the areas of value for money, availability and knowledge of the area.
The survey for hotels.com, part of the Expedia group, was conducted among over 1,900 travellers between May 11-28 this year.
What does the underlined word “rigorous” in the third paragraph mean _______?

The writer introduced the result of the survey by _____.

Rome’s taxi drivers are lack of _______.

What does the writer want to tell us?

Founded in 1764 by French traders, St. Louis today is the fifteenth largest urban area in the United States. There are many attractive destinations for touists．
★American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog
Dog lovers who visit St. Louis won’t want to miss this 14,000-square-foot museum. Inside are over 500 paintings，prints, watercolors，and a variety of other dog art objects.
The Museum is open year round，Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM, and Sunday 1 PM to 5 PM. Admission is ＄5 for adults，＄2.50 for seniors, and ＄1 for children up to 14.
★Anheuser Busch Brewery
The Anheuser Buxch Brewery tour is not just for beer lovers．The tour includes the historic Brew House．Then the tour continues to the modern Bevo Packaging Plant. The best will be the Budweiser Clydesdale stables. The tours are always free．
★Gateway Arch
Designed by Eero Sarinen and Hannskari Bandel, it took over two years and 900 tons of stainless steel to build. It is the tallest of the country’s National Monuments. The Arch is part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. About one milion people per year come to the top of the Arch, where there is an observation platform providing a great view of the city.
★The St. Louis Zoo
First version of the St. Louis Zoo opened in 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair, but in the century since it has grown into one of the chief zoos in the world. The passenger train takes visitors around the Zoo，which contains over 9,000 animals of over 800 species.
The Zoo is open every day but Christmas and New Year，with summer hours of 8 AM to 7 PM，and hours the rest of the year of 9 AM to 5 PM．Admission to the Zoo is free．
If a senior high school student plans to visit American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog with his parents and his five-year-old brother，he has to pay ______．

If you are interested in how to make beer，you can visit ________．

Which of the following statements about Gateway Arch is TRUE?

If you plan to visit the St. Louis Zoo, you can go there _____.

When you learn reading, nlath, and other subjects taught in school from your parents or teaehers who come to your house, it’s called homeschooling. A kid may be the only one, or he may be taught with brothers, sisters, or kids from the neighborhood.
Parents choose to homeschool their children for many different reasons. Sometimes a kid is sick and can’t go to regular school. But more often, kids are homeschooled beeause their parents feel they can give their children a better education than the local school can. Patents also may choose homeschooling because they want their children’s education to include religious (宗教的) instruction, which isn’t offered at puhlie schools.
If you don’t like school, homeschooling might seem like the perfect solution. But it’s better for everyone if homeschooling isn’t chosen just as an escape from school or prohlems there. Finding solutions to the problem should be the first step.
Kids who are homeschooled may benefit from the one-on-one attention. For example, if you don’t understand something in math, the whole class won’t he moving on without you. You might be the whole class! It’s also possible that you might learn more than you would in a regular classroom, because if you really good at something, you can keep learning more at your own pace.
Kids who are homeschooled also may get out in their communities more than other kids. They may get to experience hands-on education at museums, libraries, businesses and other community resources. They also might volunteer or take part in “service learning” where they take on local projects.
No matter where a child goes to school, the key to learning is listening to the teacher and asking for help when you need it. A homeschooled child might feel more comfortable with his teacher (a parent), but the child still needs to pay attention and cooperate. Just like in a traditional school, teachers and students need to work together to achieve goals in the classroom.
The passage mainly tells us ____.

What does the author think of homeschooling?

The similarity of homeschooling and learning at school is that ____.

Which of the following should NOT belong to the reasons why kids get homeschooled?

Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The largest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts hardly lose their pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age.” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. “Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70. one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender(性别)difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.
They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on heahhy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease.
The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.
The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.
The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph probably refers to _____.

The text mainly talks about ______.

According to the text, the UK scientists have known that _____.

We can know from the passage that ______.

Poor families in some countries spend as much as eighty percent of their money on food. Rising prices in recent months have created the worst food crisis(危机) in more than thirty years. The United Nations World Food Program says high food prices could push one hundred million people into hunger.
Nathan Childs is an expert on rice markets. He notes that the harvest for the latest growing season was the largest on record. But India, Vietnam and others have restricted exports(限制出口) to keep prices down at home and protect supplies.
Thailand’s agriculture minister says his country will never restrict rice exports. He told the Reuters news agency Thursday that Thailand has enough supplies to meet demand at home and for export.
Thailand is the world’s largest rice exporter. Recent signs of an increase in supplies have helped ease record prices for Thai rice. Prices rose last week above one thousand dollars a ton.
Vietnam, the second biggest exporter, has banned(禁止) exports until June. And Vietnamese officials have now warned that non-food traders who buy rice for speculation(投机活动)will be severely punished.
Some experts say speculation is a necessary part of market activity. But the head of the U.N. Environment Program blames it for the high food prices. “We have enough food on this planet today to feed everyone.” Achim Steiner told the Associated Press.
Earlier, a member of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission didn’t accept the idea that speculators are the main cause. Bart Chilton blamed reduced harvests and grain supplies and the falling value of the dollar.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called heads of major international agencies to a meeting this week in the Swiss capital, Bern. He says high food prices could harm world trade, economic growth, social progress and political security.
What is the main idea of the passage?

Which country restricted food exports according to the passage?
A. Thailand.    B. Switzerland.    C. Vietnam.    D. The USA.
All of the following are the results of rising prices of food EXCEPT ____.

What is the reason for the speculation according to the head of the U.N. Environment Program?

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：
如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个（√）
如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词
该行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词
注意：原行没有错的不要改
During the weekend I traveled by air the first time
in my life. I generally travel by train and bus. It is
both cheaper and safer. But this was the short journey.   
In the beginning I did not feel very happily, but this
feeling does not last long. The journey was very exciting.
I was soon high up in the sky among the clouds. The views 
of mountains, fields and river were very interesting.
I enjoyed your short and comfortable journey very much.
This experience has shown what traveling by plane is
actually the safest way of make a journey.

假定你是李华，将去英国某学校短期学习，被安排住在Smith先生家。请你写封短信与其取得联系并询问以下情况：
1. 住宿条件；       2. 膳食安排；       3. 交通情况。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头语已为你写好。
Dear Mr. Smith
I’m Li Hua from China, writing to ask about my stay with your family.
________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua